(MENAFN) The Italian coastguard said on Saturday that almost a hundred people were missing after a boat with migrants sank off the Libyan coast.
"The bodies of eight people have been recovered. Four people have been saved, and they say 107 migrants were onboard the boat in all," the agency's press office said.
Search operations were continuing after nightfall in poor weather and sea conditions, it said.
A French warship, patrolling under the EU's Frontex border operation, picked up the survivors and two merchant ships were heading for the area, located about 50km north of the Libyan coast.
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